Comments on: Pay No Attention to World Crisis, Let’s Attack American Businesshttps://americanelephant.wordpress.com/2014/07/27/pay-no-attention-to-world-crisis-lets-attack-american-business/
Defending Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of HappinessSat, 01 Aug 2015 01:17:13 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: The Elephant's Childhttps://americanelephant.wordpress.com/2014/07/27/pay-no-attention-to-world-crisis-lets-attack-american-business/#comment-23882
Mon, 28 Jul 2014 09:06:25 +0000http://americanelephant.wordpress.com/?p=39331#comment-23882I read, back in the day, that being president of the law review at Harvard was simply a popularity contest. And Elizabeth Warren became a law professor at Harvard because her status as part Cherokee made her a desirable diversity point. (Why is it always The Cherokees they are descended from? Nobody is ever descended from the Utes or the Diggers or the Mound Builders? I always suspected that Obama got in on diversity points. And getting to the Senate was easy, you just pull some strings and get your opponents divorce records made public.

I think it was that first big speech to the Democrat convention in Boston, and the ecstatic audience response. That made him think he could indeed be president, which was an office more deserving of his talents. He knew what he didn’t know, and set up a system with all sorts of Czars to master subjects and give him 3 simple policy choices on what to do and he’d pick one. But he’s not very good at picking advisers either. He is in awe of john Holdren (who is a bit of a crackpot)and he said just the other day that when he had a question about science he could just call Holdren up, and he said in admiration, ‘he’s a real physicist.”

Kerry for State?, Hagel as Sec. of Defense? Biden? Dan Bongino said of the new administration: “They’re like kids with a shiny new toy— no one knows anything about government. They treated the president like a cult figure — if he said it it must be true. Nothing could be more dangerous than a vindictive, ideologically-driven megalomaniac surrounded b obsequious yes-men in the White House.”

]]>By: Lon Meadhttps://americanelephant.wordpress.com/2014/07/27/pay-no-attention-to-world-crisis-lets-attack-american-business/#comment-23881
Mon, 28 Jul 2014 07:38:45 +0000http://americanelephant.wordpress.com/?p=39331#comment-23881This is a perfect example of an argument that I love to have with the few of my friends that will still admit to being Obama supporters:

Me – “Obama is an idiot”

Them – “Obama can’t be an idiot… attended Punahou, attended Occidental, Columbia, Harvard Law (no transcripts to back up how “brilliant” he was at any of these places)… President of the Law Review (no articles with his name on them – not a first, but certainly a rarity)… elected Senator… elected President… can’t be an idiot to do all of that”

Me – “Which would mean that when Obama gives a speech like this, accusing corporations of ‘cherry-picking’ which taxes they pay – which by implication means that they are not paying some taxes that are legally owed, and they are therefore breaking the law – Obama is well aware that this is not the case, that the corporations in question are paying all of the taxes legally required by them, and that these ‘loopholes’ that are being exploited are in fact perfectly legal. Which would mean that Obama is deliberately distorting the facts of the situation in order to achieve some personal or political gain. Is that about right?”

Them – “Well…”

Me – “He’s lying, in other words. Or he’s an idiot who doesn’t understand what he’s talking about. Which is it?”

I haven’t gotten a truly satisfactory answer in a couple of years. I don’t really expect one, either.

Of course, when I first heard the Leader-From-Behind-in-Chief say this, my comment was , “But when some Presidents cherrypick the laws they choose to enforce, it damages the country’s reputation. It adds to the lack of respect for the office. It makes it harder to get people to believe in the things that will keep America strong, and it sticks us with the tab for what he gives his cronies. And I think that’s totally wrong. We don’t get to pick which rules we play by, and neither should the President.”